This week’s selection of great pics and vids that have been creating a buzz on the internet this week
••• This week the Pottermore Twitterfeed revealed details for four new schools of Wizardry and Witchcraft in Japan, central Africa, Brazil and North America. But Norwegian artist Even Amundsen has already created the Nordic branch of the magical franchise. Here are a few his characters for a school called Vølurheim. Where’s the...

With Beetlejuice 2 edging ever closer to a green light, Winona Ryder – Lydia Deetz in the original – has confirmed that she’s been in discussion with Tim Burton about it, and she’ll be back… if the film ever happens, anyway.
Speaking on NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers she said, “I think I can confirm it because Tim Burton did this interview. It was very hush-hush, top secret, ‘I don’t know what may happen, I don’t know…’...

The Death of “Superman Lives”: What Happened? has been making noise on the internet since director Jon Schnepp first announced he was working on a documentary about what happened to the 90s Superman movie that never was. At last October’s MCM London Comic Con, Schnepp and producer Holly Payne spoke about their research and revealed some exclusive preview clips from their movie. This May, the pair returned to London’s ExCel...

Following a preview panel at last October’s MCM event, director Jon Schnepp will return to MCM London Comic Con in May for the European debut of his documentary film The Death of ‘Superman Lives’; What Happened?
Resting in development at Warner Bros for much of the 90s, Superman Lives went through multiple incarnations, linked to the likes of Tim Burton, Nicholas Cage and Kevin Smith, as well as legendary producers Jon Peters...

Following the commercial success of its recent live-action retelling of Cinderella (which at time of writing has taken over $300 million globally), Disney is now reportedly developing a live-action adaptation of another of its animated classics, Mulan.
The company has purchased a script from writing team Elizabeth Martin and Lauren Hynek that focuses on the Chinese legend of the female warrior Hua Mulan, the same Mulan who was the central character...

Tim Burton has signed up to direct a live-action take on Disney’s 1941 classic, Dumbo, The Wall Street Journal has revealed. The latest in a series of live-action remakes of animated Disney movies, Burton’s Dumbo will continue a new trend set by the likes of Alice in Wonderland, Maleficent and Cinderella. The announcement follows hot on the heels of news that Harry Potter star Emma Watson has been cast in an upcoming version...

After Christopher Reeve donned his cape and tights for the last time in 1987, it would be another 19 years before Superman would next appear on cinema screens in Bryan Singer’s 2006 Superman Returns. Yet, during the 90s, another Superman movie – which, after multiple rewrites, came to be known as Superman Lives – was a long time in the works. Based on a comic arc that sees Superman killed by Doomsday and brought back to life by...

The Weinstein Company have released through Yahoo the first trailer from director Tim Burton’s drama Big Eyes.
The film is based on the real life events of Walter Keane (Christoph Waltz), an artist that gained fame during the 1950s and 1960s for paintings that featured girls and women with oversized eyes. Only, he didn’t paint them. While Walter took the credit, the true artist was his wife Margaret (Amy Adams). She initially enjoys the riches...

First, there was the live-action 1996 version of 101 Dalmatians, starring Glenn Close as the deliciously evil Cruella DeVille. Then came Tim Burton’s 2009 return to Wonderland, soon followed by this year’s Maleficent, a reimagining of Disney’s iconic 1959 animated Sleeping Beauty feature. More recently, we’ve had news that Kenneth Branagh is directing a live-action Cinderella movie, featuring Lily James in the title role....